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\n\tCALCUTTA, May 9th, 1907 }
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\nBy the Way
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\nThe Anglo-Indian Defence Association exists, we believe, in order to take up the cause of Anglo-Indians individually and
\ngenerally, whether that cause be just or unjust, whether the individual be a good citizen or a criminal pursued by the law. It is not
\nsurprising that such a body should also be found championing the Mahomedan hooligans who, for the present, are the good
\nfriends, allies and brothers-in-arms of Anglo-India in its fight against Swadeshi. A certain Mr. Garth, said to be a son of the
\nlate Sir Richard Garth, Chief Justice and one of the cheap and numerous tribe of “Friends of India”, was the oratorical hero of the
\noccasion. This gentleman was delivered in Mango Lane on Monday of a speech which runs to more than a column of insults and
\nmisrepresentations against Swadeshi Bengalis. He informed a wondering world that things in East Bengal were quite the opposite of what the Bengali press reported. We do not exactly understand this phrase. Does Mr. Garth mean that it is the Mahomedans who are being plundered, their men wounded and injured, their women outraged, while the officials give their assailants a
\nfree hand and are busy repressing any attempt at self-defence? That would be the opposite of what the Bengali papers represent.
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\nBut Mr. Garth then assures the world\u2014 which ought by this
\ntime to be quite dumb with awe\u2014 that he, Mr. Garth, is quite satisfied of the absolute falsity of the charges against the local
\nofficials. He does not pretend\u2014 this easily-satisfied Mr. Garth\u2014 that there is a single fact or the smallest fragment of evidence
\nto disprove these charges which the officials impugned have 
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\nnot tried and the Anglo-Indian journals have not been able to
\ndisprove. No, the inner consciousness, the subliminal self of Mr. Garth has assured the outer barrister in him of the innocence of
\nMessrs. Clarke, Loghman and Co., and they are acquitted. Mr. Garth is equally cocksure that the Mahomedans did not begin
\nany of the recent riots; no, it was the Hindus who went and compelled them to riot and plunder and worse, so anxious were
\nthe people of Jamalpur and Dewangunj to bring on themselves the worst outrages and insults. With such brilliant powers of
\ninsight and reasoning, Mr. Garth ought to have come much more to the front as a barrister than he has succeeded in doing.
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\nThe case for the Mahomedans as presented by this brilliant
\nspecial pleader is that they were goaded to madness. In order to prove his point he makes no bones about falsifying history.
\nThe Hindus, he says, tried their hardest to get the Mahomedans to join with them but absolutely failed. When we remember
\nthe unanimity of Hindus and Mahomedans at the time of the Partition Agitation, we cannot but admire such fearless lying.
\nWell, the Hindus failed and then they tried intimidation on the poor sellers of bideshi articles, who are all, if you please,\u2014 yes,
\none and all Mahomedans in Mr. Garth’s pleasant romance. But still the Mahomedans would not lose their angelic patience, still
\nthey would not listen to the pipings of Hare Street. But at last the Hindus began to form bodies of volunteers and learn
\nstick-play and sword-play. This was the last insult which drove the Mahomedans to madness. That Hindus should learn sword-play
\nand stick-play is enough, in Mr. Garth’s opinion, to justify outrage, plunder, murder, mutilation, and the violation of women.
\nAfter this, he says, no wonder the Mahomedans began to ask their leaders, “What is this?” All this tumult and violence, all
\nthese Armenian and Bulgarian horrors under British rule, are only the inoffensive, patient, loyal Mahomedan’s gentle way of
\nasking his leaders, “What is this?” <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n We have written the above in the very bitterness of our heart.
\nIt is clearer than ever that the unspeakable outrages inflicted on the Hindu community have the full moral support of the English
\nin India. Officials allow them, Anglo-Indian papers sympathise with them, Anglo-Indian speakers defend them, and the speeches
\nand writings in which they are defended, are full of intolerable insults to the whole Hindu population of Bengal. Yet we do not
\ncease to buy the Englishman <\/i>and Empire, <\/i>we do not cease to give briefs to Mr. Garth and men of his kidney. We even hear that a
\nprominent Swadeshi leader gave a brief to Mr. Garth the very next day after his speech, presumably as a reward for calling
\nthe whole Bengali Bar and Press a pack of liars. If it is so, we deserve every humiliation that can be inflicted on us. 
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